Hi,
I have to start by saying that "I know NOTHING about mac's"...
My mate has just purchased a 2nd hand Intel MacBook Pro from ebay. The mac arrived, but did not come with any cd/dvd's for OS X or applications.
The mac had loads of junk on it, so he wanted to purchase OS X and start afresh.
His good lady is a CSS for Virgin, and she picked up a copy of OS X 10.4 from the states the other day. We put the DVD in the drive, and rebooted... Nothing. After a few mins of google, I found out that you should hold down the C key while its rebooting... but still nothing!!!
You can open the DVD when the mac is running, and browse it...
After a little more google time, it would apear that the DVD we had was for a PowerPC chip, and not an intel chip. Is there a different version of OS X for the intel mac? or should the powerpc version work??? or, am I just doing something wrong... Is there a special way to get it to recover from the DVD's???
Any help or advice would be great... Like I said, I dont know anything about macs, so any help is more that I know!!!
Thanks in advance,
Danno
I have to start by saying that "I know NOTHING about mac's"...
My mate has just purchased a 2nd hand Intel MacBook Pro from ebay. The mac arrived, but did not come with any cd/dvd's for OS X or applications.
The mac had loads of junk on it, so he wanted to purchase OS X and start afresh.
His good lady is a CSS for Virgin, and she picked up a copy of OS X 10.4 from the states the other day. We put the DVD in the drive, and rebooted... Nothing. After a few mins of google, I found out that you should hold down the C key while its rebooting... but still nothing!!!
You can open the DVD when the mac is running, and browse it...
After a little more google time, it would apear that the DVD we had was for a PowerPC chip, and not an intel chip. Is there a different version of OS X for the intel mac? or should the powerpc version work??? or, am I just doing something wrong... Is there a special way to get it to recover from the DVD's???
Any help or advice would be great... Like I said, I dont know anything about macs, so any help is more that I know!!!
Thanks in advance,
Danno